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Photography

“writing with light”

earliest surviving camera photograph

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Joseph Nicéphore NiépceView from the Window at Le Gras, 1826

Boulevard du Temple, Louis Daguerre, 1838

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, ca. 1844image taken by unknown Artist,

Daguerreotype; 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.

1839

Announcement of process…

New Photographic Gallery, New York. 1861. Engraving

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William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, 1835 or 1839Photogenic drawing negative; 3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.

9-40Talbot,The Pencil of Nature, 1844

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Nadar, self-portrait

By Nadar

Nadar's Portrait Studio on the Boulevard des Capucines. 1860

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NADAR, Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1855.

EUGÈNE DELACROIX, Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Oil on canvas, approx. 8’ 6” x 10’ 8”.

Nadar,Sarah Bernhardt,Gelatin silver print8 5/16 x 6 3/8 in.,1859

lHonoré Daumier, lithograph, 1862 “Nadar elevating Photography to the height of Art.”

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The impact of painting on photography

Photography as Art

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EUGÈNE DURIEU andEUGÈNE DELACROIX, ca. 1854. Albumen print, 7 5/ 16” x 5 1/8”.

DAGUERRE, Still Life in Studio, 1837. Daguerreotype.

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Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857, 2” x 18”

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872 Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1869

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

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Ophelia, Study no. 2, 1867. Albumen print, 1' 11" x 10 2/3".

The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868

c. 1857-1861

c. 1859-61

Lady Clementina Hawarden

Study from Life, c. 1862-3 Study from Life, c.1863-64

Lady Clementina Hawarden

Study from Life, c.1860

Misc. stereoscopic cards

Advertisement for the Kodak camera, c. 1889.

Photography as Documentation“Reportage”

"My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history."

- Mathew B. Brady

Mathew Bradyphotograph, “Freedmen on the Canal Bank at Richmond,” 1865

photograph, “Freedmen on the Canal Bank at Richmond,” 1865

Mathew Brady or Alexander Gardner “Dunker Church and the Dead,”1862

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JOSIAH JOHNSON HAWES and ALBERT SANDS SOUTHWORTH, Early Operation under Ether, Massachusetts General Hospital, ca. 1847. Daguerreotype.

TIMOTHY O’SULLIVAN,A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, 6 3/8" x 8 3/4".

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Art as Documentary and Scientific Tool

Eadweard Muybridge, plate published in The Horse in Motion, 1883

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKZif9ooxs

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Eadweard Muybridge, Horse Galloping (The Horse in Motion ), 1878, 9 x 12”, Calotype print

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ELECTRONIC TIMING DEVICE USED BY MUYBRIDGE AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR ANIMAL LOCOMOTION (FRONT AND REAR VIEW)

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MOTION STUDY TAKEN WITH MAREY-WHEEL CAMERA,BY THOMAS EAKINS

Videos used in class:

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http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/process/#top